Asked by the producer what he wanted to make, DeMarco replied: “We’re smoking cigars. I am 25 per cent Italian. People talk a lot about ‘gangster rap.’ A lot of Italian-Americans in the movies are ...

Knowledge the Pirate counts himself as a member of the rapper Roc Marciano’s inner circle. Alongside KA, who we recently nominated as recording the best New York City rap album of the year, Knowledge ...

Should 50 Cent be barred from Canada? Well, I don't know Mr. Cent. If I did, I could call him Fiddy. That's what his friends and other rap star/moguls call him. So my view on whether he should or ...

With “Dipset Anthem”, the Diplomats created an immortal song. For our latest Behind the Beat, Rsonist (of The Heatmakerz) tells Thomas Hobbs why we’re still listening to that “gangsta music” 20 years ...

For fans and critics who intellectualize it, gangsta rap, or “reality rap,” is serious business. For them, the defining genre of West Coast hip-hop represents true stories from the ’hood as told by ...

For the latest edition of Pursuit of Happiness, superproducer Buddah Bless talks about turning negativity to power and more. 21 hours ago Once again, Surviving Compton: Dre, Suge & Michel’le shone a ...

The characters hailed from 1930, but the lawyers re-enacting Alphonse “Scarface” Capone’s July 1930 Dade County perjury trial Tuesday performed on a familiar stage: the courthouse, where acting, ...

Here is a fun video for all the Star Wars fans out there, the third video in the Star Wars Gangsta Rap series, and definitely the funniest so far, the Star Wars Gangsta Rap: Chronicles. MCs Vader, ...

He’s straight outta synagogue. Nissim Black, a black Orthodox Jewish rapper from the streets of Seattle, landed in New York with a bang this week, headlining a concert in Passaic, N.J., Thursday and ...

Most of the artists features on Kenny Beats’ YouTube series The Cave — in which the producer and his guest build a song from scratch while casually kicking it in the studio — are rappers. Mac DeMarco ...